Bug#1095101: locales: drop the file /etc/locale.alias

[cacin@allfreemail.net]

Package: locales
Version: 2.40-6
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

the file /etc/locale.alias has been deprecated for over a decade and
contains information that is considered harmful on modern systems,
because it links to non-UTF-8 locales.

Please stop unpacking it on debian.

Thank you.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.11-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.89
ii  libc-bin               2.40-6
ii  libc-l10n              2.40-6

locales recommends no packages.

locales suggests no packages.

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